XBox Live Video Grinds To Halt

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XBox Live Video Grinds To Halt

Call it oversubscription, call it incompetence, call it what you will. For users of Microsoft's newly-opened Live Video service, it's called a Dead Parrot.

The service has ground to a halt, with slow and incomplete downloads leading to knock-on issues, such as hard drive space being blocked off by the operating system for movies that aren't even being downloaded.

Microsoft will refund users who report problems with the service, with XBox Exec Larry Hyrb admitting that "technical issues have resulted in a very unpleasant experience" for users.